MarketWatch media columnist Jon Friedman hasn’t been able to get an interview with CBS News anchor Katie Couric, so he penned what is basically a the media-about-media version of Gay Talese’s landmark 1966 essay “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.”
Friedman’s column, titled “Why Won’t Katie Couric Talk To Me?,” is a gripping tale Read More
In his latest 42-second Media Web Minute, Jon Friedman goes all Chris Crocker and says what no other journalist or pundit would dare: Sarah Palin is right — leave her family alone.
According to Mr. Friedman, Sarah Palin, whom you might recall was once a candidate for the vice presidency of the Read More
In his latest 43-second Media Web Minute, MarketWatch’s Jon Friedman bids farewell to retiring Fox Newsman Brit Hume, whom he describes as "one of the fairest minded people on the scene and above all, the most droll."
Mr. Friedman continues, "Hume’s not a table pounder, he’s not a yeller, he’s not a preener Read More
This week in his 48-second Media Web Minute, MarketWatch’s Jon Friedman wonders why Harper’s doesn’t have the "buzz" of other general interest magazines like The Atlantic, The New Yorker or Vanity Fair.
"It’s about time the public stood up for Harper’s," Mr. Friedman declares in his accompanying column. "Even with its pedigree and its Read More
Another week, another fabulous Media Web Minute from MarketWatch’s ace media critic Jon Friedman.
In this episode, a smirking, almost laughing Mr. Friedman plugs The Nation‘s new "Carnal Knowledge" sex and politics column ("Get it? Wink, wink… Smirk, smirk," Mr. Friedman says of the name), praising it as "a good idea… It makes a Read More
Jon Friedman is back with another amazing Media Web Minute as part of his MarketWatch column.
This week, an animated, gesticulating Mr. Friedman (has someone had some coaching?) address a nagging error on his part. It seems that he was wrong in rejecting Time magazine’s selection of "You" as the person of the Read More
Good news for all you Friedmaniacs out there. MarketWatch’s Jon Friedman has embraced online video and produced an amazing "Media Web Minute" to go along with this week’s column.
Mr. Friedman knows you’re busy, so his minute is a mere 50-seconds long. Now you can use those other ten seconds however you like. Read More
As you may have been able to tell from The New York Times‘ diabetes series (following its series on gold), it’s Pulitzer season and everyone’s trying to jump on the multi-part bandwagon. Even MarketWatch’s Jon Friedman is bringing out the big guns with a three-parter on one of today’s most pressing media issues: Read More
“I happily remembered my wayward youth when I saw a hilarious National Lampoon cover from 1973. Unabashedly un-PC, it showed an adorable dog with a pistol pressed against its right ear. The caption said: If you don’t buy this magazine, we’ll kill this dog.”
- Recapturing the vitality of magazines, by Jon Read More
